Just got reading through some of the comments and responses to the Maryscott OConnor WAPO article. And some of you need to take a chill pill and go to your corner for a few months.
Someone has the guts to invite the media into their home and give a reporter access to their everyday lives and all you can do is think OMG she's not some perfect angel who we can hold up as a shining becon of what it is to be liberal?
Who the hell do you think you are? The last thing we need is to be dishonest to what we are. We lambast daily here and on just about every other liberal board places like Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, and Redstate for being hypocrits and misrepresnting themselves.
If you have so little faith in the things we believe in that we have to lie about them just so we can sell a brand you really need to re-evaluate what it is to be liberal.
If you have so little faith in the truth and being on the side of reason and factual information how can you possibly stand up to the fear mongers, hate mongers and liars of the right?
The answer is you can't and every time you try to change your appearance or alter your message to try and appease some arbitrary standard in your head, or put forth by the masses or right wing, you do yourself and every liberal person a disservice.
We need less appeasers and more Maryscotts to stand up and say this is who we are. This is the way it is and you are going to have to accept who and what we are and change your preconcieved prejudices and ideas to match reality or reality is going to come kick your butt eventually.
Do any of you really think the media at large was going to do any kind of objective reporting on us? The important thing is more people will know about us who didn't before and some of them will come here to debate us or out of curiosity and maybe have their eyes opened a bit. For the most part the ones who would just read the article, nod their heads and say "Ya thats what I expected" are too far gone to be recovered anyway.
Kudos to Maryscott you did what more of us need to do.